A Year to The Day by Robin Benway

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National book award-winning and New York times bestselling author Robin Benway returns with a story of love, loss and sisterhood reminiscent of give you the sun and every day. Told in reverse chronological order, a year to the day will claim a permanent home in your heart. It's been a year, a year od missing Nina Leo can't remember what happened the night of the accident. All she knows is that she left the party with her older sister, Nina and Nina's boyfriend, east. And now Nina is dead, killed by a drunk driver and leaving Leo with a hole inside her that's impossible to fill. East, who loved Nina almost as much as Leo did, is the person who seems to most understand how she feels, and the two form a friendship based on their shared grief. But as she struggles to remember what happened, Leo discovers that East remembers every detail of the accident and he won't tell her anything about it. In fact, he refuses to talk about that night at all. As the days tumble one into the next, Leo's story comes together while her world falls apart. How can she move on if she never knows what really happened that night and is happiness even possible in a world without Nina.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- 13 to 17 years
    • Format- Hardcover
    • Product dimensions- 5.4" W x 8.3" H x 1.4" D
    • Genre- Young Adult
    • Publisher- HarperCollins Publishers, Publication date- 06-21-2022
    • Page count- 352
    • ISBN- 9780062854438

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3 years ago
from Southern California

A YA portrait of grief and loss

Book Review: A Year To The Day by Robin Benway A Year To The Day is a young adult contemporary novel about a teenage girl who lost her sister in a horrific car accident. It’s told backwards from the one year anniversary of her death to the day of the crash. Leo doesn’t remember the details of the accident that killed her sister. Although she begs the other surviving passenger (her sister’s boyfriend East) he refuses to tell her and she is left with both unanswered questions and the overwhelming grief losing her sister. She is also trying to be there for her mother who is single and struggling alone while her father is expecting a baby with his second wife. Told in chapters that each take us further backward toward the accident we get closer to the truth of the memories Leo lost. The Robin Benway did an amazing job of describing Nina (the deceased sister) so well that the audience is very aware of what Leo lost. Nina is the voice in her ear making sarcastic remarks, having strong opinions and doesn’t suffer fools lightly. Now Leo is on her own and trying to incorporate what Nina taught her plus navigate the tricky world of female friendships in high school. East is the sweet and grieving boyfriend who is trying to plan for life after high school and college without Nina. This is a well written portrait of grief and life after losing a family member. Robin Benway did an excellent job of making the teenagers relatable and authentic and despite the topic of grief being difficult she still made it an entertaining and uplifting read 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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3 years ago
from B&N Mason

So much potential!!!

I really love the premise of this book. I feel like this book hit the nail on the head when it comes to how teens deal with grief. It's written backwards so the book starts on the one year anniversary of Nina's death and then travels back to the night of the accident. It keeps you on the edge of your seat even though you know what's going to happen. Like knowing they go from point A to point B but you don't know how until it happens. Also, even though we only get about three chapters with Nina alive, she manages to solidify herself as a character through Leo. The one thing that I didn't like was the ending. The first chapter ends with Leo and her mom going through Nina's photos on her phone for the first time. We never find out what was in the photos. Since the book travels backwards in time we also never find out what East saw during the accident since it's too early for him to talk about it. We also never find out how the family develops with Opal who never even met Nina. I would have loved an epilogue with the family four or five years after the accident.

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